Three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone will be joining the cast of the upcoming WandaVision spin-off series, Agatha: Coven of Chaos, Deadline reports. LuPone joins Kathryn Hahn, who is reprising her role as Agatha Harkness, and Emma Caulfield Ford, who is expected to reprise her role of Dottie from WandaVision. The new Disney+ series also includes Joe Locke, Aubrey Plaza, Ali Ahn and Maria Dizzia…
Bravo dropped a sneak peek of season 13 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey Wednesday. In addition to covering Teresa Giudice‘s extravagant wedding to Louie Ruelas,the three-and-a-half minute clip teases fights involving fellow cast members Melissa Gorga, Joe Gorga, Frank and Dolores Catania, Margaret Josephs, and Dr. Bill Aydin and Jennifer Aydin. Viewers also get a glimpse at two new cast members — Danielle Cabral and Rachel Fuda. RHONJ season 13 premieres February 7…
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Chris Pratt should stick to herding velociraptors. The Jurassic World series star took to Instagram to document an ill-fated attempt to emulate Erika Thompson, a Texas-based beekeeper who has more than 966,000 followers on the social media platform.
A shades-wearing Pratt explained to his fans, “So I’ve been following this bee lady on the Instagram, and she’s so cool and brave, and gets in front of these hives of bees and says, ‘They’re very calm today. I’m gonna remove the bee, I’m gonna use my bare hands to sift through the bees and look for the queen.'”
The Marvel movie star continued, “So it’s built up this false sense of security in me, to whereas I said, ‘I think I can control bees, too.'”
Pratt recalled, “I saw a beehive two days ago and I went towards it, and a man standing next to me says, ‘Hey careful, there’s bees,’ and I said, ‘These bees look very calm,’ and I just stared at these bees, and then one of them comes out and stings me in the eyeball.”
The actor then removed his shades to reveal a very swollen left eye, adding, “So, anyways, f*ck that bee lady.”
Allison Holker has shared a photo of her late husband,Stephen “tWitch” Boss, one week after news broke of his tragic death.
Boss died by suicide on December 13. The So You Think You Can Dance alum and The Ellen DeGeneres Show star was 40 years old.
Holker, 34, shared a selfie of her and Boss on Instagram Wednesday, writing, “My ONE and ONLY Oh how my heart aches. We miss you so much.”
Boss and Holker married in December 2013 and shared three children: Weslie, Holker’s daughter from a previous relationship; son Maddox Laurel, 6; and daughter Zaia, 3.
Holker, who competed on SYTYCD season 2 and later as an All-Star, released a statement on December 14 about Boss’ death, calling him “the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans.”
“Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and community above all else and leading with love and light was everything to him,” she said. “To say he left a legacy would be an understatement…” adding, “I am certain there won’t be a day that goes by that we won’t honor his memory.”
Holker concluded her statement, saying, “Stephen, we love you, we miss you, and I will always save the last dance for you.”
Boss was a hip-hop dancer best known for being the runner-up on SYTYCD season 4 and a judge for season 17 earlier this year. He was also the DJ, and eventually an executive producer, on DeGeneres’ talk show.
If you are in crisis or know someone in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, by calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or by visiting 988lifeline.org. You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
Allison Holker has shared a tribute to her late husband,Stephen “tWitch” Boss, one week after news broke of his tragic death.
Boss died by suicide on December 13. The So You Think You Can Dance alum and The Ellen DeGeneres Show star was 40 years old.
Holker, 34, shared a selfie of her and Boss on Instagram Wednesday, writing, “My ONE and ONLY Oh how my heart aches. We miss you so much.”
Boss and Holker married in December 2013 and shared three children: Weslie, Holker’s daughter from a previous relationship; son Maddox Laurel, 6; and daughter Zaia, 3.
Holker, who competed on SYTYCD season 2 and later as an All-Star, released a statement on December 14 about Boss’ death, calling him “the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans.”
“Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and community above all else and leading with love and light was everything to him,” she said. “To say he left a legacy would be an understatement…” adding, “I am certain there won’t be a day that goes by that we won’t honor his memory.”
Holker concluded her statement, saying, “Stephen, we love you, we miss you, and I will always save the last dance for you.”
Boss was a hip-hop dancer best known for being the runner-up on SYTYCD season 4 and a judge for season 17 earlier this year. He was also the DJ, and eventually an executive producer, on DeGeneres’ talk show.
If you are in crisis or know someone in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, by calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or by visiting 988lifeline.org. You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the eligible nominees in 10 categories for the 95th Academy Awards, and it looks like Wakanda may be going back to the Oscars.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was recognized in five categories: Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Song for Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up,” Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
In 2019, the original Black Panther became the first Marvel movie to win Oscar gold, snagging statues for Best Production Design, Best Costuming and Best Score.
Other feature films to get recognition included The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, and the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted ceremony will be held live on ABC on Sunday, March 12, from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
Here are the nominees to make the short list for the announced categories, listed alphabetically.
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front Amsterdam Babylon The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Blonde Crimes of the Future Elvis Emancipation The Whale
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon The Banshees of Inisherin Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Devotion Don’t Worry Darling Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Nope She Said The Woman King Women Talking
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Time” from Amsterdam
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” from Avatar: The Way of Water
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
“Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
“Til You’re Home” from A Man Called Otto
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
“My Mind & Me” from Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
“Good Afternoon” from Spirited
“Applause” from Tell It like a Woman
“Stand Up” from Till
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
“Dust & Ash” from The Voice of Dust and Ash
“Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing
“New Body Rhumba” from White Noise
SOUND
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Moonage Daydream Top Gun: Maverick
VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Jurassic World Dominion Nope Thirteen Lives Top Gun: Maverick
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Black Slide The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse The Debutante The Flying Sailor The Garbage Man Ice Merchants It’s Nice in Here More than I Want to Remember My Year of Dicks New Moon An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It Passenger Save Ralph Sierra Steakhouse
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
All in Favor Almost Home An Irish Goodbye Ivalu Le Pupille The Lone Wolf Nakam Night Ride Plastic Killer The Red Suitcase The Right Words Sideral The Treatment Tula Warsha
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
All That Breathes All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Bad Axe Children of the Mist Descendant Fire of Love Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song Hidden Letters A House Made of Splinters The Janes Last Flight Home Moonage Daydream Navalny Retrograde The Territory
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton Anastasia Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison As Far as They Can Run The Elephant Whisperers The Flagmakers Happiness Is £4 Million Haulout Holding Moses How Do You Measure a Year? The Martha Mitchell Effect Nuisance Bear Shut Up and Paint Stranger at the Gate 38 at the Garden
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Argentina – Argentina, 1985
Austria – Corsage
Belgium – Close
Cambodia – Return to Seoul
Denmark – Holy Spider
France – Saint Omer
Germany – All Quiet on the Western Front
India – Last Film Show
Ireland – The Quiet Girl
Mexico – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Morocco – The Blue Caftan
Pakistan – Joyland
Poland – EO
South Korea – Decision to Leave
Sweden – Cairo Conspiracy
While Netflix has already reported its spooky series Wednesday is one of its biggest shows of all time, Nielsen has now weighed in, reporting the Jenna Ortega-starring show scored the second-biggest week on streaming ever recorded.
According to Nielsen Streaming numbers quoted by Variety, Wednesday was watched for nearly 6 billion minutes during its first week on Netflix, which corresponded with the ratings company’s November 21-27 viewing window.
It managed that feat despite the fact that Wednesday actually dropped on November 23 — in the middle of that week.
Incidentally, the only other show to beat this record was also on Netflix, the fourth season of Stranger Things, which logged 7.2 billion minutes viewed in its debut week in May.
It should be noted, Netflix and Nielsen evaluate viewership differently; the streaming service clocks “hours watched,” claiming Wednesday attracted 341.2 million in its first week. Its second week had a viewership of 411.3 million hours watched as word of mouth spread.
Directed by Tim Burton, Wednesday also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Wednesday’s mom, Morticia, and Luis Guzmán as her adoring dad, Gomez, as well as Addams Family movie vet Christina Ricci and Game of Thrones alumna Gwendoline Christie.
On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees in 10 categories for the 95th Academy Awards, and Wakanda is officially going back to the Oscars.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was nominated in five categories: Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Song for Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up,” Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
In 2019, the original Black Panther became the first Marvel movie to win Oscar gold, snagging statues for Best Production Design, Best Costuming and Best Score.
Other feature films to get recognition included The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
All nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, and the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted ceremony will be held live on ABC on Sunday, March 12, from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
Here are the nominees for the announced categories, listed alphabetically.
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front Amsterdam Babylon The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Blonde Crimes of the Future Elvis Emancipation The Whale
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon The Banshees of Inisherin Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Devotion Don’t Worry Darling Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Nope She Said The Woman King Women Talking
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Time” from Amsterdam
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” from Avatar: The Way of Water
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
“Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
“Til You’re Home” from A Man Called Otto
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
“My Mind & Me” from Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
“Good Afternoon” from Spirited
“Applause” from Tell It like a Woman
“Stand Up” from Till
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
“Dust & Ash” from The Voice of Dust and Ash
“Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing
“New Body Rhumba” from White Noise
SOUND
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Moonage Daydream Top Gun: Maverick
VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Jurassic World Dominion Nope Thirteen Lives Top Gun: Maverick
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Black Slide The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse The Debutante The Flying Sailor The Garbage Man Ice Merchants It’s Nice in Here More than I Want to Remember My Year of Dicks New Moon An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It Passenger Save Ralph Sierra Steakhouse
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
All in Favor Almost Home An Irish Goodbye Ivalu Le Pupille The Lone Wolf Nakam Night Ride Plastic Killer The Red Suitcase The Right Words Sideral The Treatment Tula Warsha
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
All That Breathes All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Bad Axe Children of the Mist Descendant Fire of Love Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song Hidden Letters A House Made of Splinters The Janes Last Flight Home Moonage Daydream Navalny Retrograde The Territory
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton Anastasia Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison As Far as They Can Run The Elephant Whisperers The Flagmakers Happiness Is £4 Million Haulout Holding Moses How Do You Measure a Year? The Martha Mitchell Effect Nuisance Bear Shut Up and Paint Stranger at the Gate 38 at the Garden
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Argentina – Argentina, 1985
Austria – Corsage
Belgium – Close
Cambodia – Return to Seoul
Denmark – Holy Spider
France – Saint Omer
Germany – All Quiet on the Western Front
India – Last Film Show
Ireland – The Quiet Girl
Mexico – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Morocco – The Blue Caftan
Pakistan – Joyland
Poland – EO
South Korea – Decision to Leave
Sweden – Cairo Conspiracy
It’s the time of year for Christmas movies, and to make bingeing easy, the ratings aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has listed 100 of the best holiday films, based partly on their critics and audience scores.
Chances are you’ve seen many, but there are others you may not have considered — or considered Christmas movies at all — as they span across all genres, from family to horror.
1944’s Meet Me In St. Louis topped the list; the musical film has a 100% score overall. The Judy Garland film takes place over several seasons, with Christmas playing a major role.
Other entries with a 100% score included 1967’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas (#39) and 1983’s Mickey’s Christmas Carol (#44).
Other selections include the old standby Miracle on 34th Street (#3), and the animated movies Klaus (#5) and Tim Burton‘s The Nightmare Before Christmas (#6).
And yes, Die Hard made the Christmas list, at #8.
With a 90% score, 1983’s classic A Christmas Story ranked 15th; the new Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special cracked the top 20 at #17, and 1983’s Trading Places, starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd (#21), just beat out 1984’s Gremlins.
As for the movies some might not immediately think of in the silly season but many others swear by: 2016’s slasher pic You Better Watch Out ranked 20th; 2005’s twisty Kiss Kiss Bang Bang starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer (#24) managed to beat out 2003’s Elf (#25).
Andor star and executive producer Diego Luna was already over the moon with how well the Disney+ Star Wars series has fared with both fans and professional critics.
The show has a 96% score on ratings aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and has earned some of the best online fan reaction since The Mandalorian. But the actor, now working on Andor‘s second season, admits he was taken aback by his recent Best Actor nominations from the People’s Choice Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, and the Golden Globes.
Luna recalls of the latter, “… I remember I was shooting, and the makeup artist came and said it to me, like, ‘Congratulations!’ And I thought she was talking about the shot we were doing. And I was like, “[T]his is simple, the tough one is to come.’ And she was like, ‘No, no, congrats on the nomination!’ And I was like, ‘Wow, that’s great news!'”
He adds, “It’s been cool … because I wasn’t expecting it to happen, you know, I wasn’t, like, really pushing or thinking about that at all. And these two nominations came as a surprise to me.”
Luna expresses, “What people are celebrating today about the show is what we wanted this show to be … You read in the reviews and in social media that people are celebrating the show for being complex and for being darker, and more mature cinematically and visually. I mean, there … is a statement, you know, and people are celebrating that.”
He adds, “Many times shows get celebrated, but not necessarily for the right reasons or for the same reasons you joined. And this time it’s happening. And that makes me very proud.”
Some deep-pocketed movie fans made off with some pricey props from the big screen over the weekend, as part of Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies’s Icons and Idols: Hollywood auction.
Among the 1,300 pieces of memorabilia was the event’s heaviest hitter: the original film-used “mechatronic” model that brought E.T. the Extra Terrestrial‘s friendly alien to life sold for $2,560,000. The metal skeleton and E.T.’s bright blue eyes were all that remained from Steven Spielberg‘s alien star: its latex body had long since deteriorated.
A pearl gray silk dress worn by Marilyn Monroe fetched $224,000; a journal with handwritten notes from the superstar went for $87,500.
Other big-ticket items that were on the block included the iconic Ten Commandments staff Charlton Heston‘s Moses used to part the Red Sea, which sold for $448,000, more than 22 times its original estimate, and a shield wielded by Chris Evans‘ Captain America, which sold for $102,400.
Other props that sold included Pedro Pascal‘s shiny silver helmet from The Mandalorian, which went for $75,000, and Bruce Lee‘s screen-used nunchakus from Enter the Dragon, which sold for $64,000.
